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we are going to begin today with michael barone who will tell us what happened and why. all of us on this panel has made election predictions over the course of election watching. sometimes we get it right, sometimes we get it wrong. in news "washington examiner" column yesterday michael said flatly, i was wrong but he followed up with the line, i take some pleasure in finding that i have been wrong because it is an opportunity to learn more. i think we all share that sentiment. after michael speaks we will turn to henry olsen to talk about what defeat means for the republican party or the firing squad is assembled and recrimination phase has begun. from the washington times that this morning in an editorial that chris christie should be excommunicated. [laughter] and jenny beth martin had at the tea party paychecks had this to say about romney. he who hagee was weak, moderate and it does not work she said. it's time to find someone for next time who embraces our values. henry will tell us what lessons the party should learn from this election and henry by the way called
we are going to begin today with michael barone who will tell us what happened and why. all of us on this panel has made election predictions over the course of election watching. sometimes we get it right, sometimes we get it wrong. in news "washington examiner" column yesterday michael said flatly, i was wrong but he followed up with the line, i take some pleasure in finding that i have been wrong because it is an opportunity to learn more. i think we all share that sentiment. after...
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michael is a true pain and outer from the academic world of washington policymaking and he was at the creation enemy to 90. he was secretary for tax dollars via treasury and had a key role to play in tax policy during that period. and finally, killjoys who is a college in the academic world.university of maryland, a senior budget or at naxal school and former cbo staffer, but most notably recently he did the first authoritative book on the congressional budget office. hard to believe an institution like that was around for that long and has never been written about to work on cbo among other things. he's also the editor of a major journal public budget and finance. so that's our lineup for today and i thought it but everybody just take a broad take on the questions of what can we learn from the 1990 budget agreement that we all acknowledge is a policy success, even though maybe we didn't realize at the time. we learned president bush didn't quite get the budget he deserved. what can we learn today? >> first of all, but we say we and the media world have had or if you are spreading for
michael is a true pain and outer from the academic world of washington policymaking and he was at the creation enemy to 90. he was secretary for tax dollars via treasury and had a key role to play in tax policy during that period. and finally, killjoys who is a college in the academic world.university of maryland, a senior budget or at naxal school and former cbo staffer, but most notably recently he did the first authoritative book on the congressional budget office. hard to believe an...
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michael? >> the exit poll consortium massages the data that initially comes in and we noticed with the exit poll both because of interview bias but also responded that it tends to attract more democrats and the 2008 democratic primary attract more obama voters in hillary clinton voters. learning is a cumulative for the people that work on this every two and four years have learned something i was working with in the michigan in the head of the fox decision desk and they were over in rockefeller center spending about four hours in the afternoon basically. they got the data adjusted for the response and down to a 49-49 top line that is an 1% of the vote for each candidate and unlike the past years in 2000 for some of the state exit polls were not way out of whack with what the report turned out to be. in fact they turned out to be pretty close. .. if you take that as an impression nistic thing. the hispanic number did go up to 10% this time, i think. we'll see. there's the category when they ask
michael? >> the exit poll consortium massages the data that initially comes in and we noticed with the exit poll both because of interview bias but also responded that it tends to attract more democrats and the 2008 democratic primary attract more obama voters in hillary clinton voters. learning is a cumulative for the people that work on this every two and four years have learned something i was working with in the michigan in the head of the fox decision desk and they were over in...
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michael porter, who's here with us and just, michael, wave so they know who you are. we're all, you know, not very diverse. [laughter] so michael is a very distinguished professor from harvard business school; he has his own followers, acolytes. when i worked in the senate in the 1990s, jeff bingaman and i and our whole staff were rivetted to much of michael's work and guidance at the time. we were just talking in the green room that had we listened on some of the issues we were talking back then, the united states might not be in the same position. to michael's left we have very good friend robert kimmitt. bob kimmitt was, i thought, the smart guy who would have evolved if mitt romney had come in. we might have seen him as national security adviser, as secretary of the treasury. of course, he was deputy secretary of treasury during president bush. he also happened to be a senior foreign policy player, was our ambassador to germany, and is one of the very few people who synthesizes the economic and the national security in such a holistic way. his dad was a famous dem
michael porter, who's here with us and just, michael, wave so they know who you are. we're all, you know, not very diverse. [laughter] so michael is a very distinguished professor from harvard business school; he has his own followers, acolytes. when i worked in the senate in the 1990s, jeff bingaman and i and our whole staff were rivetted to much of michael's work and guidance at the time. we were just talking in the green room that had we listened on some of the issues we were talking back...
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with fox news channel political contributor michael. are call congress inside out columnist and aei national destructor henry olson. they'll exam the deciding factor how they cast their ballot and issues important to voters it's live beginning at 12:00 p.m. eastern. until then your calls and today headline from "washington journal." >> the election surfaces and this is what richard writes from the front page. house republican and senate democrats a new lease same leader who failed last year strike a deal on raising taxes, cutting spending, and reducing the budget deficit found themselves stuck with each other through 2014. they wasted no time staking out their position on the crisis 56 days away. which could raise the average us hod tax burden and the first $3 5. harry reid and move on to house speaker john boehner. >> they are tired of the partisan gridlocks and things like i have a one goal to feed obama. that's gone. obama was re-elected overwhelmingly. >> american people want us to work together. republicans want us to work together
with fox news channel political contributor michael. are call congress inside out columnist and aei national destructor henry olson. they'll exam the deciding factor how they cast their ballot and issues important to voters it's live beginning at 12:00 p.m. eastern. until then your calls and today headline from "washington journal." >> the election surfaces and this is what richard writes from the front page. house republican and senate democrats a new lease same leader who...
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but michael is right. charters serve about 5% of the kids in the country right now that are in public schools, and the percentage of for-profit operators that have a piece of that share is tiny. it's less than 1% of the total kids in the country. and a big percentage of those are in these virtual schools. so whether it's because there are more frictionless and scale faster, or they are doing the kind of thing that michael would talk about, competing head-to-head with nonconsumption rather than with things that we look at in brick-and-mortar schools that are more familiar to us than public sector, as public sector institutions, the virtual schools have a tiny percentage of students that they serve but are growing much, much faster and attracting capital at much faster rates than the more traditional whole school brick and mortar for profit school models. >> but really one quick point later to the next question, which is the other challenge by the way is to the extent that they are releasing data, making it
but michael is right. charters serve about 5% of the kids in the country right now that are in public schools, and the percentage of for-profit operators that have a piece of that share is tiny. it's less than 1% of the total kids in the country. and a big percentage of those are in these virtual schools. so whether it's because there are more frictionless and scale faster, or they are doing the kind of thing that michael would talk about, competing head-to-head with nonconsumption rather than...
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peterson foundation, michael peterson. [applause] >> while politics is often centerstage, policy and substance will form the basis of many fiscal agreement. we at the peterson foundation believe that the mortgages and the more solutions brought to the table, the better. out initial goal is to create a platform that fosters policy proposals from across the political spectrum. if we're going to put in place a plan that can work for the nation, we need is the ideas from all sides. and the objective is to provide our leaders and the public with an array of options to consider as we address these tough fiscal choices. out initial foray into solutions with women launched the first phase of the solutions initiative. would ask the organization to develop long-term fiscal plans, and all of them with a nation on a sustainable fiscal path. this time would ask them to revise and update plan but we also asked them specifically how should we avoid the cliff, in which he be the first priorities for congress and the president in 2013. onc
peterson foundation, michael peterson. [applause] >> while politics is often centerstage, policy and substance will form the basis of many fiscal agreement. we at the peterson foundation believe that the mortgages and the more solutions brought to the table, the better. out initial goal is to create a platform that fosters policy proposals from across the political spectrum. if we're going to put in place a plan that can work for the nation, we need is the ideas from all sides. and the...
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i want to thank the moderators; michael, richard and stan, for doing a terrific job of keeping us on course. i would like to thank you in the audience for attending, for your questions, for your participation. i'd like to thank josh friedman of the new america foundation for his help and assistance with the program and with important parts of the logistics. i need to thank ellie warren in the back here, eps, and our director, tea harvey, who always does an impeccable job with these symposia. [applause] and finally, once again, i would like to thank bernard schwartz for his support and friendship and help with everything that we do over the years. thank you very much. thank you all, and we are adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> as this forum comes to a close, if you missed any of this discussion, you can see it in our c span video library. go to c-span.org. >>> well, the u.s. senate returns today to begin its lame duck session. they gavel in at 2 eastern to start debate on a bill expanding hunting and fishing on federal lands. actually, they'll continue debate on that
i want to thank the moderators; michael, richard and stan, for doing a terrific job of keeping us on course. i would like to thank you in the audience for attending, for your questions, for your participation. i'd like to thank josh friedman of the new america foundation for his help and assistance with the program and with important parts of the logistics. i need to thank ellie warren in the back here, eps, and our director, tea harvey, who always does an impeccable job with these symposia....
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michael lind, writer, is a whitehead senior fellow of the new america foundation. is a best selling author and my copy is almost at the top of my puppet i'm looking very much for too. he's an excellent writer. michael has been an editor or staff writer for "the new yorker," harper's magazine and "the new republic." he's published and appeared and spoke in pretty much everywhere and written everything. he's, you know, in terms of writing, everything from much acclaimed serious and important works of history to a prize winning children's book. monique morrissey, you can probably figure out which person that is, has been with the economic policy institute since 2006 what we were colleagues for a i don't know, a euro something. she previously worked at the afl-cio's office of investment and financial markets center, holds a ph.d in economics from american university, and her areas of concentration in her ample research and writing include retirement security, executive compensation, the federal reserve and financial markets. lastly, sherle schwenninger, director of the
michael lind, writer, is a whitehead senior fellow of the new america foundation. is a best selling author and my copy is almost at the top of my puppet i'm looking very much for too. he's an excellent writer. michael has been an editor or staff writer for "the new yorker," harper's magazine and "the new republic." he's published and appeared and spoke in pretty much everywhere and written everything. he's, you know, in terms of writing, everything from much acclaimed...
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this was not unfamiliar language to michael harrington. but i don't like it. i don't like it and i don't know really what charles means, and i read his books carefully, when he talks about this cultural shift. i don't mean to imply by the statistics i'm citing that there are no sexless guys, or the share of the sample that you have picked out, the white working class knows what they labor for dissipation rate. they are a shrinking share of the total, very much so. a factor own numbers show they shrink by half of the total population. but if you think it's very much overdone at have two objections to the first, and this is not the position of charles murray or any the researchers just mention. in the real world, klitschko unit could speak to this just on our journalistic perch later, i think in the real world, the cultural emphasis becomes damagingly divided again, not charles. this is, culture becomes a synonym. i think that's kind of the play right now in our national debate for behaviors that are acceptable in the subgroup that the rest of us agree are bad.
this was not unfamiliar language to michael harrington. but i don't like it. i don't like it and i don't know really what charles means, and i read his books carefully, when he talks about this cultural shift. i don't mean to imply by the statistics i'm citing that there are no sexless guys, or the share of the sample that you have picked out, the white working class knows what they labor for dissipation rate. they are a shrinking share of the total, very much so. a factor own numbers show they...
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the authors are meat, michael sherman and jeans fashion and steve jeffrey pier we worked on it together. we thought of it as a comprehensive history of vermont if we could make it without making a go into more than one volume and it starts with the formation of the mountains and it goes -- we were making additions right before republishing 2004. excerpt got a lot of information about people, politics, social movements, intellectual movements, some literature, the art. we try to catch on as many of the topics vermonters wanted to know about and people might want to know. there has not been a single history of vermont written since the 1920s when a big four volume history came out. there have been a few other coming in now, shorter pieces, but no single volume, which is a comprehensive history. as i was leaving the vermont historical society, the opportunity came up to pick up what had been abandoned because of his 15, 20 years old and nothing had happened. the trustees asked me if i would work on a new history of vermont and i agreed to do it with the cooperation of my two colleagues bec
the authors are meat, michael sherman and jeans fashion and steve jeffrey pier we worked on it together. we thought of it as a comprehensive history of vermont if we could make it without making a go into more than one volume and it starts with the formation of the mountains and it goes -- we were making additions right before republishing 2004. excerpt got a lot of information about people, politics, social movements, intellectual movements, some literature, the art. we try to catch on as many...
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chief michael hayden. from the previous administration, from president bush's administration. they wrote the following: "we carry the burden of knowing that 9/11 might have been averted with the intelligence that existed at the time. we do not want to be in the same position again when a cyber-9/11 hits. it is not a question of whether this will happen; it is a question of when." end quote. mr. president, this time all the dots have been connected. this time we know that cyber attacks are occurring each and every day. this time the warnings are loud and clear. how can we ignore these dire warnings? how -- how can we fail to act on the cybersecurity bill, especially since the majority leader has indicated that he is willing to allow for amendments, as he should, to make this process fair. germane amendments would be allowed. so i urge our colleagues to heed the warnings from the experts and to vote for cloture on the cybersecurity bill so that we can proceed to its considerati consideration. i don't want to be here a year from now saying, why didn't we act? why didn't we listen
chief michael hayden. from the previous administration, from president bush's administration. they wrote the following: "we carry the burden of knowing that 9/11 might have been averted with the intelligence that existed at the time. we do not want to be in the same position again when a cyber-9/11 hits. it is not a question of whether this will happen; it is a question of when." end quote. mr. president, this time all the dots have been connected. this time we know that cyber attacks...
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but, you know, just like michael jordan, john stockton and karl malone, there's a time to retire. i'm running for the u.s. senate to insure our children have the opportunity toly the american dream -- live the american dream. my life experience comes from the 34 years at the ibm corporation. i want you all to know that when i go back there to washington, i'll vote the three cs, my conscience, my constituents and the constitution. i will not be this partisan individual that is ruining our country today. government should protect you and me from those who would do us harm, threaten our rights and take away our civil liberties whether they be foreign or domestic, unscrupulous businesses, corporations or individuals. i gained a reputation as a legislator committed to working together. i worked with governor mike leavitt to balance the state budget every single year. collaboration is how problems are solved. as your united states senator, i promise you every day i'll work the represent you -- to represent you and this great state. god bless you. god bless utah, and thank you very much.
but, you know, just like michael jordan, john stockton and karl malone, there's a time to retire. i'm running for the u.s. senate to insure our children have the opportunity toly the american dream -- live the american dream. my life experience comes from the 34 years at the ibm corporation. i want you all to know that when i go back there to washington, i'll vote the three cs, my conscience, my constituents and the constitution. i will not be this partisan individual that is ruining our...
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you know, comparing him to michael corleone, he gives them too much credit for his savvy and his smarts. but in one sense he is like michael corleone because he came and believing he could reform an incredibly corrupt and truly mafia like system, and he found it very quickly that he was, if you was to remain in power he couldn't do it. and we can speculate whether he wanted to take a softer approach than some of those around him like his late brother in law or his brother, but it really doesn't matter. it's in material. we see the situation. we know what it is. and it's going to continue. i think increasingly there's a consensus at what the situation is in syria and what some of the pitfalls are. you know, i think there's much more realism now than there was a year ago. about what's going on in that country. and much more sober assessment on the part of u.s. officials and others as to what can and can't be done. certainly, being a former diplomat, you would not be surprised to find out that a belief that this, we should be leaning a diplomatic effort. but i'm not a fan of those who want
you know, comparing him to michael corleone, he gives them too much credit for his savvy and his smarts. but in one sense he is like michael corleone because he came and believing he could reform an incredibly corrupt and truly mafia like system, and he found it very quickly that he was, if you was to remain in power he couldn't do it. and we can speculate whether he wanted to take a softer approach than some of those around him like his late brother in law or his brother, but it really doesn't...
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. >> where is michael boskin at? you were part of this 1990 deal. i wonder if you could -- what is your perspective on this? >> i think you are right that the enforcement mechanism is important. spending was limited to a specific dollar amount and could not be exceeded. and on the had very tight enforcement procedures won't buy one for every agency. the other was there was a marginal balanced-budget rule. >> that's right. >> if you wanted to add a new entitlement, you had to pay for it. so it's kind of like at the margin, -- both of those worked pretty well until the late '90s and the balance was actually at a surplus with the internet bubble. >> partly because allen greenspan told us the danger of these huge surpluses. >> in any event, the discipline got lost. it was re-upped by clinton and the republican congress several years later. another key part and why george w. bush wanted to go along with it, he was able to wolof this. he was worried about very draconian cuts. >> incidentally, that will again be important. >> i think it is important and al
. >> where is michael boskin at? you were part of this 1990 deal. i wonder if you could -- what is your perspective on this? >> i think you are right that the enforcement mechanism is important. spending was limited to a specific dollar amount and could not be exceeded. and on the had very tight enforcement procedures won't buy one for every agency. the other was there was a marginal balanced-budget rule. >> that's right. >> if you wanted to add a new entitlement, you...
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have the editor of the atlantic magazine, james bennet or as i now think of him the brother of senator michael bennet who spoke this morning. so, we have -- [applause] we are going to set this up in an unusual way for us which is everything you would ever want to know about what a pac or superpac is played out on the colbert report with steven colbert and john mccain. trevor potter is the lawyer for the tabare -- colbert superpac and the segment is colbert heading off to john mccain all of which according to trevor to jon stewart is perfectly legal. okay, que the tape. >> can i run for president and keep my speed eight? don't sugar coat it. >> no. >> we could have it run by somebody else. >> someone else can take it over. >> yes that someone that you wouldn't be coordinating with in terms of the ads and strategies. stat i wouldn't want to even create the appearance of electoral scope. [laughter] if that is the word i can say on a family show. >> i think there might be a guide. jon stewart? [applause] >> if you will. >> colbert superpac transfer activate. [laughter] [screaming] >> colbert super
have the editor of the atlantic magazine, james bennet or as i now think of him the brother of senator michael bennet who spoke this morning. so, we have -- [applause] we are going to set this up in an unusual way for us which is everything you would ever want to know about what a pac or superpac is played out on the colbert report with steven colbert and john mccain. trevor potter is the lawyer for the tabare -- colbert superpac and the segment is colbert heading off to john mccain all of...
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i mean, michael mentioned my book. i decided to write "voices of determination" because as i go around the country, i've been in nearly every state and, you know, when i give speeches, when i visit schools, when i talk to policymakers, i generally try to visit schools. and i always ask is the question, tell me this kid's story, tell me that kid's story just like i did when i first got involved in this, and it became my life's work. and do you know what's interesting? i'm amazed at the resiliency of our kids. see, oftentimes it doesn't take but one or more little, positive influence in some of these chirp's lives to change -- in these children's lives to change their life trajectory. and so it struck me that, you know, even we saw it in chicago, you know, we see it when people talk about performance pay, when they talk about a lot of the no child left behind, it's so easy for it to feel like it's not personal to us. the policy stuff is like numbers or words on a page. but if i would go around the country and visit schoo
i mean, michael mentioned my book. i decided to write "voices of determination" because as i go around the country, i've been in nearly every state and, you know, when i give speeches, when i visit schools, when i talk to policymakers, i generally try to visit schools. and i always ask is the question, tell me this kid's story, tell me that kid's story just like i did when i first got involved in this, and it became my life's work. and do you know what's interesting? i'm amazed at the...
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buerkle: let me begin by saying i have concerns when michael bloomberg spends $600,000 on this race, you know? my concern is he's going to try to tell upstate new york how to live their lives like he's doing down state. you know, people who contribute to campaign whether it's an individual or a pac, it's free speech. it really is supporting candidates who espouse your principles. i'm proud to have had the u.s. chamber of commerce endorsement, national b b federation of independent businesses. these are pro-growth, pro-economic agencies that really are america's job craters. 60 plus endorse me because they understand the affordable care act cuts medicare for our seniors, so the kinds of support has been consistent with my principles. i will say that the ads that dan maffei has run, the nasty, negative, distorted ads are ones that he has personally run along with unions and the dccc. and our ads are about our message and what i have done. i'm proud of my record. >> moderator: ms. rosen? rozum: the green party uses all corporate donations, and unlike ann marie, i don't believe corporati
buerkle: let me begin by saying i have concerns when michael bloomberg spends $600,000 on this race, you know? my concern is he's going to try to tell upstate new york how to live their lives like he's doing down state. you know, people who contribute to campaign whether it's an individual or a pac, it's free speech. it really is supporting candidates who espouse your principles. i'm proud to have had the u.s. chamber of commerce endorsement, national b b federation of independent businesses....
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michael fauntroy as a professor of public policy at george mason university where he teaches urban policy come civil rights policy and american government and we have just heard from janet from the national council of la raza. so, with that, mr. packer, the microphone is yours. you're opening remarks. first thank you, jonathan, for the introduction and marc and janelle and others for having me on the panel. i appreciate being here with my colleagues what we tell you a couple things about the growth in case you don't know. the rayburn group as a government affairs public affairs firm with 40 to focus on our staff and overall the majority of our clients are what i would call progress of nonprofit organizations so the firm is really committed to the advancing the ideals and missions of a broader range of the progressive community. personally i do education policy and i work for the national education association for 25 years and i've been doing education policy overall for about 35 years now. i want to talk first about some of the challenges we are facing because we face a lot of challenges.
michael fauntroy as a professor of public policy at george mason university where he teaches urban policy come civil rights policy and american government and we have just heard from janet from the national council of la raza. so, with that, mr. packer, the microphone is yours. you're opening remarks. first thank you, jonathan, for the introduction and marc and janelle and others for having me on the panel. i appreciate being here with my colleagues what we tell you a couple things about the...
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michael greenstone, who is a white house economist, said to me, listen, it's simple. the economy has been standing at the top of the mountaintop, you know, screaming in a loudspeaker, just get a college degree and you will make more money. it's very simple. and as he puts it, women hear the call, and women don't hear the call. and there's probably lots of reasons for that. um, if you go back to after world war ii and the g.i. bill, you know, there you had a period of extreme flexibility in men because i talk about men being a little more rigid and maybe women being more responsive and flexible. >> host: right. >> guest: and men did go to college, and they did become farmers and can take on all these jobs -- >> host: after fighting a war. >> guest: after fighting a war. so, you know, i'm thinking a lot about why this is true. like, is it because women have been the underdogs, or they feel like -- a lot of the women i talked to the to in the book, that immigrant drive that they have to get ahead is part of this formula that seems to be moving women. maybe that worked fo
michael greenstone, who is a white house economist, said to me, listen, it's simple. the economy has been standing at the top of the mountaintop, you know, screaming in a loudspeaker, just get a college degree and you will make more money. it's very simple. and as he puts it, women hear the call, and women don't hear the call. and there's probably lots of reasons for that. um, if you go back to after world war ii and the g.i. bill, you know, there you had a period of extreme flexibility in men...
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i have offered a bill with michael thompson, that provides tax credits so that we can work updated grids and let me just say one last thing. again, i cut 6000 jobs of city workers and that is absolutely false. i no longer support the plant for here. because i don't think that it is feasible for us. but i will tell you that the president and senator schumer and senator gillibrand all support nuclear power. >> moderator: senator schriebman coming up 45 seconds. schriebman: that is the record, it is not something i can make up, it's not a matter of characterizing anything. it's a record that anyone can go and it wouldn't have taken me two years to figure out that the citizens don't want this choice for their future. the congressman didn't answer that question. he rejected that is the future and decided that he thinks he wants to focus on something else first. the fact is that this is not for the future of upstate new york. we have nowhere to put those fuel rods at this point. we have much better alternatives here than the nuclear plant that he championed. >> moderator: we are going to head
i have offered a bill with michael thompson, that provides tax credits so that we can work updated grids and let me just say one last thing. again, i cut 6000 jobs of city workers and that is absolutely false. i no longer support the plant for here. because i don't think that it is feasible for us. but i will tell you that the president and senator schumer and senator gillibrand all support nuclear power. >> moderator: senator schriebman coming up 45 seconds. schriebman: that is the...
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. >>> republican senator michael lee and ted cruz spoke at a convention hosted by the federalist society in washington, d.c.. the remarks said justice roberts decision on the health care law was a sharp aberration to establish early in his career. after senator lee, senator cruz from texas discusses the election results. this is about one hour. >> i serve as the executive vice president of the federalist society. we hope that you are all having a great time here at our 30th anniversary convention. it's hard to believe that this is the third occasion i think on which -- at which we are welcoming united states senator mike lee to the it seems like yesterday, senator, when you came to us just after your election in 2010 presenting your vision of the system of limited constitutional government. i remember you describing with a sense of hope and of those the house some the desired use all among the people on the campaign trail for the return to the komen principles. i suspect those principles do not resonate out quite the same pitch in the hallways of the senate as they did among the people o
. >>> republican senator michael lee and ted cruz spoke at a convention hosted by the federalist society in washington, d.c.. the remarks said justice roberts decision on the health care law was a sharp aberration to establish early in his career. after senator lee, senator cruz from texas discusses the election results. this is about one hour. >> i serve as the executive vice president of the federalist society. we hope that you are all having a great time here at our 30th...
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of what happened and ann remembers it well after the defeat of jimmy carter and walter mondale and michael dukakis. the democrats had to talk about this and out of became bill clinton and out of it came a different way of thinking and a new democrat. i think the republicans, you can't say well either romney did it wrong, we have too many conservatives and we need to be moderate or romney lost because of the moderates and we need someone really conservative. you have to have discussion on what you talked about which is the demographic changes, cultural changes in the country and economic changes and how does that approach that? i think that is a process. >> what the is the's the questioning though for the presidential candidates that are already running around in the republican party? does that mean that rubio has a better chance than some of the other republicans because of this demographic challenge? >> you hear democrats looking at chris christie and think he's a great presidential candidate. that is what i was getting to and republicans thinking look how off message he was and they don'
of what happened and ann remembers it well after the defeat of jimmy carter and walter mondale and michael dukakis. the democrats had to talk about this and out of became bill clinton and out of it came a different way of thinking and a new democrat. i think the republicans, you can't say well either romney did it wrong, we have too many conservatives and we need to be moderate or romney lost because of the moderates and we need someone really conservative. you have to have discussion on what...
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i also want to take this opportunity to thank bailey's family, her husband stanley, her children michael and laura, for their support and understanding as bailey has worked to help others. today is bailey and stanley's 41st wedding anniversary. on december 8, laura will be married. please join me in wishing balely fine a healthy and happy retirement and well deserved time with her family. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent floor privileges be granted to ann wide lee during the senate consideration of s. 3254, the national defense authorization act. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cardin: mr. president, i could would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. the presiding officer: the senator from virginia is recognized. mr. webb: thank you, mr. president. i -- i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. webb: i'd like to speak on the udall amendment. i have great admiration and respect for the senator from colorado, as well as his cousin who now presides, but i have c
i also want to take this opportunity to thank bailey's family, her husband stanley, her children michael and laura, for their support and understanding as bailey has worked to help others. today is bailey and stanley's 41st wedding anniversary. on december 8, laura will be married. please join me in wishing balely fine a healthy and happy retirement and well deserved time with her family. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent floor privileges be granted to ann wide lee during the senate...
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michael talked about how great britain has done that successfully. the united states needs to transform its system of expectation in the same way. common core of state standards is the right step in that direction. 46 i think states have embraced this idea of fewer higher expectations that require critical thinking skills that are benchmarks to the best of the world. common core will also bring up for joy for those were complacent about in lala land, will bring a painful reality check too many moms and dads in the business leaders and to people that love their own communities and love their schools, which is that all children are not above average. [laughter] i know that will be a shock to a whole lot of people, but the simple fact is that all children are not above average or even the kids that we think are above average are not above average when we benchmark them to like minded students in other parts of the world. i don't know if you all follow what's happened in kentucky. kentucky is the first state to adapt common core standards back in februar
michael talked about how great britain has done that successfully. the united states needs to transform its system of expectation in the same way. common core of state standards is the right step in that direction. 46 i think states have embraced this idea of fewer higher expectations that require critical thinking skills that are benchmarks to the best of the world. common core will also bring up for joy for those were complacent about in lala land, will bring a painful reality check too many...
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>> michael with "the boston globe." i just wasn't very am what you said about some of the numbers, responsive to the obama representative, talking to high you get 4% of gdp. you said if you have an account is 4.2% so if by your logic are saying romney will then reduce defense spending to 4%? if given an apples to apples comparison so everyone can understand. >> sure. here's the point. the overseas contingency operations account is essentially driven by afghanistan and iraq but iraq is going. and afghanistan is being drawn down. and mr. romney has said as long as the commanders on the ground our code for with the 2014 deadline and we can discuss the differences there've because it's not just a minor new ones, then he's prepared to follow their advice. in which case that account, because driven by operations comes down. the point though is that you will still be taking some of that money, there are billions of dollars in that account that really have a long-term implication and they are not purely driven by the afghanista
>> michael with "the boston globe." i just wasn't very am what you said about some of the numbers, responsive to the obama representative, talking to high you get 4% of gdp. you said if you have an account is 4.2% so if by your logic are saying romney will then reduce defense spending to 4%? if given an apples to apples comparison so everyone can understand. >> sure. here's the point. the overseas contingency operations account is essentially driven by afghanistan and iraq...
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but the critical question which michael raises in this china report is the themselves realize they can't rely on the structure growth that they had in the past 20 years so one of the ironies is if people in china talking about the lost decade of the last ten years even though they were growing 10% a year and what they are talking about is the fact they haven't undertaken some of these reforms. so flexible as the labor force shrinks there will be more people leaving in china in the next five years than coming in. they have to move up the value added chain so i think what you see right now is a bit of a debate as people say well, look should we avoid kind of a hard landing by doing what we did in the past include the expansion and more investment and so forth while others say yes we can do that but i will build the basis of the future problems, so we need to start making some of these shifts and the way that china works is sentimental, and i think the debate where i've gotten to know over the years he's a good german. you have special-interest groups, state-owned enterprises, so i would ex
but the critical question which michael raises in this china report is the themselves realize they can't rely on the structure growth that they had in the past 20 years so one of the ironies is if people in china talking about the lost decade of the last ten years even though they were growing 10% a year and what they are talking about is the fact they haven't undertaken some of these reforms. so flexible as the labor force shrinks there will be more people leaving in china in the next five...
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his indeed at rush medical college, medicine residency at university of washington, fellowship with michael old stone, famous dizzy spell, and then he served in beijing as an intermediary between w.h.o. and the chinese government during the sars outbreak 2003 which is something i suspect we will talk about. he codirects sars research efforts in china with current minister of health. >> daniel jernigan, captain dan, is in, indeed, miles per hour, captain indiana state's public health service answers as the deputy director of the influenza division and the national center for immunization and respiratory diseases at the cdc. he came up from atlantic city. dr. jernigan serves as senior medical officer and senior public health service officer for the influenza division which is responsible for oversight and direction of approximately 300 staff members, policy, preparedness and program. in addition he serves as principal investigator for influenza research and public health evaluation activities. and certainly will talk about influenza tonight. maryn mckenna, my colleague is a science writer, is
his indeed at rush medical college, medicine residency at university of washington, fellowship with michael old stone, famous dizzy spell, and then he served in beijing as an intermediary between w.h.o. and the chinese government during the sars outbreak 2003 which is something i suspect we will talk about. he codirects sars research efforts in china with current minister of health. >> daniel jernigan, captain dan, is in, indeed, miles per hour, captain indiana state's public health...
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about me i have a list of ten and if i am not enacted i will reach out to young voters and some of the michael [inaudible] which is the symbol for ten items, and i hope we can get to that later. >> moderator: mr. sanders? sanders: i live in burlington. my wife and i have been married for almost 25 years. we have four kids and seven grandchildren who are the love of our life. i was elected as the first independent in 1981 in berlin and served as the mayor and in free proud of the role that we played in making burlington one of the small cities in america. i was elected to the house of representatives as the first independent in 40 years, elected six years ago to the united states senate and i want to thank you the people of vermont for the honor of allowing me to be the longest serving independent in the history of the united states congress. my main concern is the decline of the middle class, very high levels of poverty and the gap between the very wealthy and everybody else. >> moderator: you can also join us tonight. we do have a live chat that is going on as we speak. our next question will
about me i have a list of ten and if i am not enacted i will reach out to young voters and some of the michael [inaudible] which is the symbol for ten items, and i hope we can get to that later. >> moderator: mr. sanders? sanders: i live in burlington. my wife and i have been married for almost 25 years. we have four kids and seven grandchildren who are the love of our life. i was elected as the first independent in 1981 in berlin and served as the mayor and in free proud of the role that...
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michael jacobson from mit is having national food day. if you look it up, you will see exquisitely placed materials that you can apply and use, even though it's just two or three weeks away, to have a food day with a locale in the schools, in the community, in the stores, in the garden, in your community. right now, the food grown in backyard gardens in america, if it was given a retail price, over $20 billion, and it's just getting started. science, technology for the people. protect the family unit. i just picked one slice of that. the commercialization of childhood is out of control. when i was a child, the companies maybe sold us directly bubble gum, but they never dared bypass our parents and undermind parental authority going for the 3-year-old, the 6-year-old, the 7-year-old, the 8-year-old, the 9-year-old, the 10-year-old, selling the junk drink, watching obesity grow among the young, the diabetic epidemic, the precursor of high blood pressure and laughing all the way to the bank. these corporate child molesters laughing all the w
michael jacobson from mit is having national food day. if you look it up, you will see exquisitely placed materials that you can apply and use, even though it's just two or three weeks away, to have a food day with a locale in the schools, in the community, in the stores, in the garden, in your community. right now, the food grown in backyard gardens in america, if it was given a retail price, over $20 billion, and it's just getting started. science, technology for the people. protect the...
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jim michaels, military writer for usa today and a former marine infantry officer. captain danny hernandez public affairs officer for the chief of naval operations in the guest of the speaker. don leinwand usa today and former president and sycophant the speaker for just a moment, jennifer sean byrd anchor for the television show the wall street report and the speakers kennedy liaison who organized today's event. bill holland, associate editor of classglapdaily. jam, a retired navy reserve capt national press club member vietnam veteran and a member of the american legion post 20 at the national press club. ken a free-lance writer commander and the american legion post 20 at the national press club of. john rosenberg a policy adviser strategic information and communications group. thank you for joining us today. [applause] >> admiral jonathan grew up in a pittsburgh suburb in butler pennsylvania. the son of a steel worker he was the third of six children. he was the all-american kid growing up. he worked not won a paper route but to. he was on the swimming team, stu
jim michaels, military writer for usa today and a former marine infantry officer. captain danny hernandez public affairs officer for the chief of naval operations in the guest of the speaker. don leinwand usa today and former president and sycophant the speaker for just a moment, jennifer sean byrd anchor for the television show the wall street report and the speakers kennedy liaison who organized today's event. bill holland, associate editor of classglapdaily. jam, a retired navy reserve capt...
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a lot of people on the hill know michael. and what they know is that he's one of the kindest, gentlest people that anyone has ever met. he's been a light on how you do things to honor other people. mike has been the kind of person that has always focused on others, especially those in need. he's the kind of person that doesn't pass up the homeless that we all see around the capitol but stops and tries to supply their need, offers them money and food, but he also offers them friendship and his time. he offers them the love and dignity that comes from being reminded that we're all children of the creator. mike has also been an unapologetic defender of the family and for those who cannot defend themselves. whether that be the disability community, the unborn, the infirm, or the elderly. he has reminded me and my staff and us that a society is truly measured in how it treats and cares for those less fortunate. mike's also a voracious reader and gifted leader. in a city where people stopped learning when they gain power, mike has
a lot of people on the hill know michael. and what they know is that he's one of the kindest, gentlest people that anyone has ever met. he's been a light on how you do things to honor other people. mike has been the kind of person that has always focused on others, especially those in need. he's the kind of person that doesn't pass up the homeless that we all see around the capitol but stops and tries to supply their need, offers them money and food, but he also offers them friendship and his...
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research by economist michael kean has highlighted that high marginal rates have the biggest impact on labor over the long run. this is because the effect of marginal rates on lifetime decisions. while a sudden increase in taxes may not lead to an immediate shift in current hours worked, it will impact future decisions, he found. for instance, higher marginal rates will discourage the accumulation of human capital through work experience and training. his review of research in this area further concluded that the effect of high marginal tax rates is especially pro nowndz -- pronounced when it comes to women's participation in the work force. so if you want a war on women, don't want them to get jobs, increase the high marginal tax rates and have less hours worked. there are many more examples of economic research that point to high tax rates hindering economic growth. for the sake of time, i'm not going to go through all of them. instead, unanimous consent sciewk at -- i ask unanimous consent at the end of these remarks to place a list of about 20 studies in the record. the presiding o
research by economist michael kean has highlighted that high marginal rates have the biggest impact on labor over the long run. this is because the effect of marginal rates on lifetime decisions. while a sudden increase in taxes may not lead to an immediate shift in current hours worked, it will impact future decisions, he found. for instance, higher marginal rates will discourage the accumulation of human capital through work experience and training. his review of research in this area further...
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by recent press stories, including one on november 8 which reported that our ambassador to russia, michael mcfall, said, and i quote -- "president obama would like to have a serious conversation with president putin about a further round of reductions in nuclear weapons to build on the new start treaty." end of quote. and i conclude, mr. president, that another round of negotiations or discussions with russia concerning nuclear arms will be extremely complicated and important, is likely to concern missile defenses and conventional long-range strike systems, about which i know i and others have some misgivings, and i think this suggests the necessity and desirability of the kind of consultation that we would be requesting of the administration prior to any agreement being reached. so i appreciate my colleagues' indulgence. at the appropriate time, i would ask for the approval of the amendment. the presiding officer: the amendment is so modified. mr. levin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. mr. levin: first, let me thank senator kyl for the way in which he has
by recent press stories, including one on november 8 which reported that our ambassador to russia, michael mcfall, said, and i quote -- "president obama would like to have a serious conversation with president putin about a further round of reductions in nuclear weapons to build on the new start treaty." end of quote. and i conclude, mr. president, that another round of negotiations or discussions with russia concerning nuclear arms will be extremely complicated and important, is...